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Monday, May 14, 2012

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

* Grab your current book or recent read.
* Share a few “teaser” sentences from somewhere in the book.
* BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away. You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
* Share the title and author so that other participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teaser!

Joanie has been in a coma for twenty-three days, and in the next few days I’ll have to make some decisions based on our doctor’s final verdict. Actually, I’ll just have to find out what the doctor has to say about Joanie’s condition. I don’t have any decisions to make, since Joanie has a living will. She, as always, makes her own decisions.

FROM THE BACK COVER:

Fortunes have changed for the King family, descendants of Hawaiian royalty and one of the state’s largest landowners. Matthew King’s daughters—Scottie, a feisty ten-year-old, and Alex, a seventeen-year-old recovering drug addict—are out of control, and their charismatic, thrill-seeking mother, Joanie, lies in a coma after a boat-racing accident. She will soon be taken off life support. As Matt gathers his wife’s friends and family to say their final goodbyes, a difficult situation is made worse by the sudden discovery that there’s one person who hasn’t been told: the man with whom Joanie had been having an affair. Forced to examine what they owe not only to the living but to the dead, Matt, Scottie, and Alex take to the road to find Joanie’s lover, on a memorable journey that leads to unforeseen humor, growth, and profound revelations.

23 comments:

Great teaser. Thank you for pointing out that George Clooney's movie is based on this book and for posting the blurb from the book's back cover. Lots of good info about this book in your post!My teaser is here: Sandy's Teaser, along with a related movie trailer.

Janet Ruth: I admit, I wasn't commited to reading this group read until I lucked onto a copy at a local UBS. Now, I am looking foward to getting into it. Hopefully it lives up to the hype and I am not disappointed. *g*

Jennifer M: Agree, very sad start to this book. Here's hoping I don't need an entire box of tissue before I'm done!

Shelley: The movie has been nominated for a ton of awards, including five Oscars: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Editing, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It only won for Screenplay.

Alice: The nice thing about the groups that have monthly reads at GR is that you don't have to join in if you don't want to. If I have the book, or am able to find one that interests me at the library book sale or HPB, then I will join in. Otherwise I skip that month.

Same with the Cozy Mysteries group's featured author. If I have that month's author or can easily find the first book in a series, I'll try to join in. If not, oh well.

Three of the groups I am in have all chosen classics I've already read (some twice read) in the last three months, so I have not been reading most of those. One has already chosen a twice-read classic for June, so I am hoping TNBBC's June classic is something I haven't yet read but would like to. I'm falling behind in my classics goal! lol